Information on calculator Random Number Generators from PPC Journal articles

[Otto55]

(11-07-2016 07:33 PM)Dieter Wrote:  

(11-07-2016 08:06 AM)Paul Dale Wrote:  Not relevant to the historic generators but the 34S uses a Tausworthe Generator. Good properties and a period around 2⁸⁸.

That's... adequate. Especially if the result can have at most 10¹⁶ or 10³⁴ different values.

Not sure I got your point - do you say that's overkill?